ok, name your monster

cameragirl21 wrote: who was your bogeyman when you were a kid?
mine was vampires! i was so afraid of vampires because i caught a glimpse of freaky, old vampire movies on tv. i also made sure to sleep with the covers over my neck! i was also fascinated by vampires and in fact, when i was little i read a book about a vampire bunny named Bunnicula and then sometime after went to a jewelry store with my parents. at the jewelry store i was bored to tears and they had a few silver piggy banks, very fancy ones and one was a bunny, one was a teddy bear and i can't recall the third. anyway, they were the closest thing to toys at that store and i suddenly bonded to the silver bunny, which was very expensive...as an adult looking back, i'm thinking these fancy silver piggy banks are for a baby, for the whole silver spoon in the mouth effect. anyway, as we were leaving and my parents told me to put the piggy bank back where i found it, the owner came out and said i could keep it...i was so happy i nearly peed my pants...and i named the bunny Bunnicula. i still have it after all these years, it's sitting on the windowsill in my bedroom...and i still call it Bunnicula ...although Bunnicula has tarnished a bit over the years.
so how about you, what's your bogeyman? and why were you so scared of this particular monster?

jcc64 replied: God I had so many. I was a quivering mess in the dark as a child. My house catching fire in the middle of the night was at the top, though.

grapfruit replied: I have to say the "things" that STILL creep me out are zombies. There is just something SUPER freightening about DEAD people coming after you to eat your brains *shiver* And NOTHING stops them!!!! See! I'm freaking myself out!!!!

cameragirl21 replied:
hmmm, that means that even as a child you were afraid of that which you could not control, very unusual....

ZandersMama replied: I was terrified of a witch living under my bed. And, I was and still am terrified of people I love dying.

Maddie&EthansMom replied: I was terrified of being kidnapped...someone sneaking in thru my window. I'm still afraid of someone breaking into my house and taking my kids.

cameragirl21 replied:
that's interesting, Aimee, that means what you fear more than anything else is people. and also that even as a child you realized that not all people are good. very interesting.

mom2my2cuties replied: As a kid - I was always afraid I was going to die. Wierd thing but - for a while I was overly preoccupied with the fear that I was going to die...At one point, I even planned out my funeral (6th grade).

Although, like Jeanne - I was afraid of most everything, but definately dying was at the top.

Calimama replied: I dont remember being scared of much as a kid. Weird I know. There was a time my older sister told me that there was a monster under my bed.. I was scared for about 10 minutes and then my curosity got the best of me and I peeked.

Maddie&EthansMom replied:
That is interesting.

kit_kats_mom replied: I bought into the ghosts/supernatural stuff completely as a kid. Every town we lived in and school I attended, I would read every book on those subjects in the library.

I wasn't really scared of them though. I guess the only real fears I recall were something grabbing me from under the bed so I'd do the whole "running leap and insti-cover to the neck with no body part poking out" thing and I vividly recall hearing my heartbeat in my ear when it was pressed to the pillow. I was terrified thinking it was a monsters footsteps coming to get me.

Kentuckychick replied: I honestly don't remember every being really afraid of anything like the bogeyman or monsters under the bed as a child... I was always comfortable going to bed (though I didn't like sleeping alone, I slept in my brothers' room... not for any fear though I just liked being in the same room with him after we moved since I had been before).

I DO remember having a few recurring dreams though...

One involved Tom and Jerry and it was weird and creepy but never really "frightened" me persay, just bothered me...

The other was one in which I was leaving school when I was 6 and we drove by the scene of a little boy who'd been run over and cut in half... that dream freaked.me.out. So much so that I eventually convinced myself it was real and had to be told it hadn't happened.

Still not really sure where those stemmed from...

Hillbilly Housewife replied:
OMG I still do that. I can't have a mirror in my room. I can't sleep with the closet doors open. The bathroom dorr has to be closed and the lid down. Even in the hottest heat, I HAVE to have at least a sheet, up to my neck... but I'm getting better at that, and on the REALLY hot days, as long as dh is in bed with me at the time, the sheet can go to my lower back.

I used to be scared to have a body part haning off the bed... cuz I used to htink that monsters would eat it.

I still get freaked out when the house makes noise at night.

cameragirl21 replied:
the hottest heat...in Quebec?!?!??!?!?!?!? lol, girl, you have no idea...come to Miami and you'll see some heat, we Floridians consider your Canada summers cool and refreshing.
btw, did you know that mirrors are points of bilocation? that is why if i wake up in the middle of the night to go to the loo, i generally won't look in the mirror when i'm at the sink washing my hands unless i turn the lights on....

Hillbilly Housewife replied:
I'm not in Quebec anymore...not since April.

By hottest heat... I'm talking temperatures of about 33 degrees, plus humidex, bringing the temp up to 45 sometimes... which is about 112 F... pretty hot...

ETA - and it's been hotter too. I had read somethi gabout mirrors being a portal or something a while back...

cameragirl21 replied: wow, that is pretty hot...i never expected it to get that hot in Canada...the handful of times i've visited Toronto in the summer i don't recall it being particularly hot. guess i was too young to care, as long as i had someone to play with, i was satisfied, no matter the temperature.
yeah, mirrors are portals aka points of bilocation.

Hillbilly Housewife replied:
you americans...

TheOaf66 replied: was never scared of a "boogeyman" or anything like that as a kid. but i did have recuring dreams, one included being chased by "The Incredible Hulk" but that is cuz I watched that show every day and still do today.

redplaydoh replied: That's funny... because I was afraid of "claws" that I knew lived under my bed. I'd turn the light off and fly into my bed without my feet so much as touching the ground (clear across the room) and wouldn't let any body part dangle off the bed either for fear of "claws" snapping it off with his big sharp claws. My sister used to torment me with this...

But...

She was afraid of snakes and worms... I got her good one night. I used my allowance to buy a package of those rubber worms used for fishing (without hooks)... I put them between her sheets so when she slid her feet in.... I don't think she's forgiven me to this day.

CantWait replied: Not a lot scared me as a kid, but one thing was something hiding under my bed when only when the lights were off. i'd always jump 2 feet onto my bed in fear of something reaching out and grabbing me, I also would never pick my stuffies up off the floor if it fell during the night.

mom2my2cuties replied:
You know it's funny - A lot of American's are under the impression that it is always snowing and cold in Cananda

kit_kats_mom replied:
ROFLMBO

I thought that too until we went to Vancouver in the Spring and it was hotter than Florida. The worst part was that they aren't set up for the heat and there was no AC in the cabins. We were DYING. Ugh

msoulz replied: Flying monkeys. I still fear them.

I still haven't encouraged my son to watch the Wizard of Oz. It's a creepy movie!!!!!

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: I had gnomes under my bed that would eat my toes if I stepped on the floor at night. I had to stand on my bed and make a leap out of it to go to the bathroom. I still have a hard time some mornings simply getting out of bed.

CantWait replied:
Yup and we ride sleighs all the time, wear tukes (sp?), and say eh all the time

Ok I say eh!! all the time.

mom2my2cuties replied: Oh! Marie - you forgot that you guys live in Igloos too don't you eh???


Oddly enough - I say eh? a lot when I am typing but not when I'm talking so I don't think that is wierd Although - When I first moved back from in Southern Ontario - You should have seen the looks I got when I asked where the nearest Timmy's (and I was thinking Starbucks course when I first got there I was asking for Starbucks and got the same strange looks) and where the "Washroom" was.

MomToJade&Jordan replied: Zombies. I can handle pretty much everything else, but Zombies just freak me out. I was reading the Anita Blake series for a while and in one of them they had this Zombie who had gone out of control and was breaking through sliding glass doors to get at people. Here I am a grown woman freaked out about some Zombie busting through the sliding glass door in the back of the house. You know Florida, most houses have them. Now I've succeeded in giving myself the heebie jeebies.

On a side note I read all of the Bunnicula books too. I loved those books.

Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Well I wear tuques and so do my kids... when it's cold it's cold...

Oh yeah - I also live in an igloo, and I eat beavers' tails. Oh and I say A-Boot...



Well I do like eating Beaver tails... but only once in a while, because they're expensive... and they taste so much better when you eat them outside in the cold, followed by a nice cup of hot chocolate.

In any case... I probably have a heck of a lot less snow than a lot of you down in the States at the moment...

Be back later... I gotta go feed my sleigh dogs, otherwise I won't be able to get to the trading post for fresh caribou meat later.

Boo&BugsMom replied: CLOWNS! I still don't like them. The movie "IT" totally creeped me out.

BTW, I use to read the Bunnicula books when I was little! I loved them!

quinnandjacob'smom replied: I was afraid of bugs or other creepy crawly type things somehow getting into my bed. I don't know what I thought they were going to do to me, but I sure was scared!

boyohboyohboy replied:
ditto, jennie! I read and watched way to much stephen king in those days!

My3LilMonkeys replied: Being alone in the dark in a place I am not familiar with was always my biggest childhood fear, and to an extent I am still afraid of it.